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Read this and be smarter: Avan Judd Stallard's novel reveals the harsh reality of life inside Australia's refugee detention centres

January 15, 2020

Avan Judd Stallard's novel Spinifex & Sunflowers goes behind the walls of an immigration detention centre in an honest, and at times harrowing, exploration of life as an asylum seeker in modern Australia.

Read this and be smarter: be awed by country and get drawn into a web of competing interests in regional northern Australia in Madelaine Dickie’s thrilling novel Red Can Origami.

January 9, 2020

From the rodeos and fishing holes of northern Australia to the dazzling streets of night-time Tokyo, Red Can Origami is a gripping tale of love, loss, land and identity.

Read this and be smarter: The story of how artist Nora Heysen embraced her passion for painting to become Australia’s first official female war artist and winner of the Archibald Prize

December 18, 2019

Anne-Louise Willoughby’s biography Nora Heysen: A Portrait celebrates the life of a woman propelled by her drive to paint. Nora Heysen was in 1938 the first woman to win the Archibald, Australia’s national portrait prize, and continued to push boundaries to be appointed this country’s first female Official War Artist.

Read this and be smarter: how poetry can educate and illuminate us on the tense relationship between humans and the Western Australian coastline

December 10, 2019

Caitlin Maling’s most recent poetry collection, Fish Song, is rich and diverse, exploring physical landscapes as well as historical and socio-cultural aspects of place. In these poems, she travels the coast of Western Australia, writing about what the ocean provides and questioning what poetry might offer by way of solace and reconnection in an age of climate change.

Fremantle Press encourages book lovers to help Reading Out of Poverty deliver the gift of reading this Christmas

December 3, 2019

Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser has pledged the company’s support of early literacy in children from disadvantaged backgrounds by donating picture books to the Victorian not-for-profit organisation Reading Out of Poverty (ROOP).

Fremantle Press Champion of Literature and education philanthropist Annie Fogarty is the proud recipient of the 2020 WA Australian of the Year Award

November 30, 2019

Our very own Champion of Literature and the force behind the Fogarty Literary Award, Annie Fogarty, has been named the 2020 WA Australian of the Year for her work through the Fogarty Foundation. Every year, the Australian of the Year Awards celebrate the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians who are positive role models in our community.

Children's author, teacher and scientist HM Waugh on how aspects of her middle-grade novel The Lost Stone of SkyCity were inspired by research into child psychology

November 1, 2019

In The Lost Stone of SkyCity, HM Waugh’s brave heroine Sunaya faces five Dragon Tests to prove she is a worthy guardian of the princess of the Ice-People. Here, Waugh explains how her own learning led her to create these tests from skills that all children need to succeed.

Read this and be smarter: Wow your friends with how much you know about Perth architecture

October 22, 2019

Brush up on some incredible details about Perth’s most iconic buildings from the book Built Perth by Tom McKendrick and Elliot Langdon and you’ll be an architecture guru in no time.

Fremantle Press CEO Jane Fraser announces new contracts for a Hungerford shortlister and authors from the Four Centres Emerging Writing Program

October 22, 2019

It seems like only yesterday we were congratulating Holden Sheppard for winning the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Now we’ve already had to reprint his wonderful debut novel Invisible Boys after stock flew off the shelves in the first week of release.

Follow in the footsteps of Fremantle Press’s Armelle Davies as she walks us through a day in the life of an editor

October 19, 2019

Editor Armelle Davies has been working at Fremantle Press for almost two years now. Here, she walks us through what her job entails on a day-to-day basis, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at working for a book publisher.